Straight portable fence



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STRAIGHT PORTABLE FENCE. No. 427,135. Patented May 6, 1890.

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JOHN W. VIGE'S, OF LAINGSBURG, MICHIGAN.

STRAIGHT PORTABLE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,135, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filed December 21, 1839. Serial No. 334,547. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. VIGES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Laingsburg, in the county of Shiawassee and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Straight Portable Fences; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The special object of the invention is to make a portable straight fence which will be conveniently held perpendicular and above ground on hillsides of any steepness.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation showing my invention applied; Fig. 2, a vertical cross-section thereof.

In the drawings, A A represent two halfposts connected at the bottom by a cross-bar B and near the top by a crossbar O, a sufficient width of intermediate space being left to receive the rails D E of two adjacent panels. The rails D E have their ends to interlap and support each other,while the top rails F G are supported by the crossbar B and the rails D E by the lower cross-bar O.

To each one of the half-posts A A and on each side of the fence I secure a wire loop H between the two lowest rails, and to it pivot the upper end of a cross-brace K, which is notched at 7.1, while below the lowest rail, but

above the cross-bar B, I place around the half-post another wire loop L, which may be made to catch in any one of the notches k, and thus hold the brace nearer to or farther from the half-post and the fence at a greater or less height. On a sidehill the uphill brace is spread out and the downhill brace drawn in, so as to keep the fence in a perpendicular position.

This fence can be built at an expense of one and one-half cent per rod for wire, while the half-posts will require no hewing or mortising and the rails no pointing; hence the fence is a cheap one to construct, while it is effective against all kinds of stock.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a fullunderstanding of my invention,what

I claim as new, and desire to protect by Let-' ters Patent, is-

A portable straight fence having the rails supported on one another between half-posts A A, and the panels supported at their junction by two cross-braces K K, having a series of notches on the outer edge, said braces being pivoted to two wire loops H ILsecured to said half-posts and held at a greater or less angle thereto by the wire loops Ir,working in the brace-notches 70, whereby the fence may JOHN W. VIGES.

W'itnesses:

PORTER K. PERRIN, ALBERT J. BALDWIN. 

